Nami Kern County | National Alliance on Mential Illness

About Us

NAMI KERN is an affiliate of NAMI California. We are a grassroots volunteer organization of families and individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness.

SUPPORT | EDUCATION | ADVOCACY

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Our Mission:

To provide support, education and advocacy for persons with mental illness, their families and friends.
To promote better quality of care, rights and interests of citizens with mental illness, particularly of those who cannot speak for themselves, and advocate for policies at the local, state and national levels to accomplish these objectives.
To encourage mental health professionals to include family members in the care and treatment of their ill family members.
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Our Beliefs:

We recognize mental illnesses are brain disorders
We see the person not the illness
We reject stigma in ourselves and others
We forgive ourselves and reject guilt
We embrace humor as healthy
We expect a better future in a realistic way
We will never give up hope